Swansea Studies in Philosophy – serie

Rush Rhees questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. He shows how one can both be concerned with knowing what one ought to do while recognising that one's answer is a personal one. These insights, arrived at in a distinctive style, characteristic of Rhees, are then applied to issues of life and death, human sexuality and our relations to animals. To recognise why philosophy cannot answer such questions for us is an affirmation, not a denial, of their importance.

A collecion of essays which explores the significance of Wittgenstein for the philosophy of religion. Explorations of central notions in Wittgenstein's later philosophy are brought to bear on the clash between belief and atheism, understanding religious experience, language and ritual, evil and theodicies, miracles and the possibility of a Christian philosophy.

The author's purpose in this volume is to present the relevance of the ideas of Wittgenstein to those interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He focuses on both the earlier work centred around the "Tractatus" and the later work of the "Philosophical Investigations".

A collecion of essays which explores the significance of Wittgenstein for the philosophy of religion. Explorations of central notions in Wittgenstein's later philosophy are brought to bear on the clash between belief and atheism, understanding religious experience, language and ritual, evil and theodicies, miracles and the possibility of a Christian philosophy.

The author of this work questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. He shows how one can both be concerned with knowing what one ought to do while recognising that one's answer is a personal one. These insights are then applied to issues of life and death, human sexuality and our relations to animals.

This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.

This volume is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing linguistic realism and without courting any form of linguistic idealism either. It argues that this is precisely what Wittgenstein does and also examines some well known contemporary philosophers who have been concerned with this same question.

It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature.

This collection of essays explores the area of ethics in relation to issues such as the nature of moral endeavour and the request for a justification of moral endeavour. Professor Phillips considers the work of Thomas Nagel and Peter Winch in this book.

In this book the author argues that human musical understanding is rooted in the traditions of culture and that experience of music depends crucially on what the individual brings to it.

Original essays by distinguished philosophers from different fields of philosophy are brought together in this book. Reflections on moral discourse and its contexts are provided and the authors discuss the nature and tasks of moral philosophy. The overall collection creates a dialogue between different philosophical views.

Rush Rhees questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. To recognise why philosophy cannot answer such questions for us is an affirmation, not a denial, of their importance.

This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.